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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?
(a) The soul.
(b) The imagination.
(c) The new house.
(d) Poetry.

2. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) The isolated poetic image.
(b) Verse.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Overall structure.

3. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.
(b) A vacant house.
(c) A childhood home.
(d) A hermit's hut.

4. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?
(a) The house where one was born.
(b) The phenomenology of motherhood.
(c) Stick-figure drawings.
(d) Nursery rhymes.

5. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?
(a) The spoken word.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Image.

6. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(b) Attic fears may be reasoned away.
(c) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.
(d) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.

7. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Two, including cellar and attic.
(b) Four, including cellar and attic.
(c) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
(d) Three, including cellar and attic.

8. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a baby in a cradle.
(b) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.
(c) As a warning of death.
(d) As a universal child from centuries earlier.

9. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a painting.
(b) Science.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) The idea of a house.

10. What does a metaphor present?
(a) An intangible object described in full detail.
(b) An intangible object as a tangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(c) A tangible object described in full detail.
(d) A tangible object as an intangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.

11. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?
(a) Paranormal presences.
(b) Drafty places which lead to pheumonia and other respiratory complaints.
(c) All the ways in which an individual inhabits his vital space.
(d) The spiritual flow between rooms and levels.

12. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Humanistic value.
(b) Phenomenological value.
(c) Artistic value.
(d) Aesthetic value.

13. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?
(a) Poetry or daydreaming.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Emerging from one's home to experience the world.
(d) Music.

14. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?
(a) When closed, the inner space disappears.
(b) Not everyone sees it.
(c) Clothing is part of one's persona.
(d) Clothing reveals dreams.

15. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?
(a) Poetic irony.
(b) Lost intimacy.
(c) Memories lost in a filing cabinet.
(d) Abandonment.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

2. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?

3. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?

4. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?

5. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

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